Identity Work in Social Movements

by Reger, Jo; Einwohner, Rachel L.; Myers, Daniel J.

• ISBN13: 9780816651399
• ISBN10: 0816651396
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-05
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants. Featuring case studies that range widely-from Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland to antigay Christian movements in the United States to online white supremacy groups-the essays show how participants set aside issues of personal identity in order to merge together and how these processes affect mobilization and the attainment of goals. Contributors: Mary Bernstein, Kimberly B. Dugan, Elizabeth Kaminski, Susan Munkres, Kevin Neuhouser, Benita Roth, Silke Roth, Todd Schroer, Verta Taylor, Jane Ward.

Table of Contents

Identity Work, Sameness, and Difference in Social Movements	p. 1
Doing Identity Work
Just Like You: The Dimensions of Identity Presentations in an Antigay Contested Context	p. 21
"We're Not Just Lip-synching Up Here": Music and Collective Identity in Drag Performances	p. 47
Technical Advances in Communication: The Example of "White Racialist "Love Groups" and "White Civil Rights Organizations"	p. 77
Drawing Identity Boundaries: The Creation of Contemporary Feminism	p. 101
Passing as Strategic Identity Work in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	p. 121
I Am the Man and Woman in This House: Brazilian Jeito and the Strategic Framing of Motherhood in a Poor, Urban Community	p. 141
Working through Identities
Ally Identity: The Politically Gay	p. 167
Being "Sisters" to Salvadoran Peasants: Deep Identification and Its Limitations	p. 189
Dealing with Diversity: The Coalition of Labor Union Women	p. 213
Diversity Discourse and Multi-identity Work in Lesbian and Gay Organizations	p. 233
The Reconstruction of Collective Identity in the Emergence of U.S. White Women's Liberation	p. 257
Afterword: The Analytic Dimensions of Identity: A Political Identity Framework	p. 277
Contributors	p. 303
Index	p. 309
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